Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:13 PM, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way
> mandated by udev and am having some issues.
>
> I usually manually compile my kernels, use tuxonice  and dont use an
> initrd/initramfs.
>
> As ToI is not available for the latest kernels, I updated openrc and
> installed genkernel but then found I couldnt use in-kernel suspend to
> disk - googling implies that genkernel doesnt support suspend/hibernate
> but there are various kludges to get it to work.
>
> So whats the least invasive, but workable kludge?
>
> hibernate, pmhibernate, swsuspend, uswsuspend, ...
>
> Are there any (up to date) docs?

Hi; not sure if it will help you, but I have been using
vanilla-sources since forever (sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.30.3,
since Aug 29, 2009), and my laptop suspends and resumes pretty much
always without any issue. I don't use genkernel: I manually configure
and compile my kernels since always, and I use dracut for my
initramfs.

Anyhow; suspend/resume should be orthogonal to an initramfs, since the
first has nothing to do with the second. I don't know about hibernate
(it's been years since I hibernated my laptop), but it should be
similar, I think.

In my laptop, GNOME does the suspend for me, but it calls pm-suspend
(I believe) from pm-utils.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México